Research Library

The Georg Eckert Institute research library provides access to an international collection of textbooks and curricula for history, geography, social studies and politics, ethics and religion, as well as reading primers in the German language and from around the world. Many textbooks and curricula in the collections can be accessed online as fully searchable texts. The research library also contains a comprehensive collection of academic literature, including electronic books, related to textbook research and analysis.

The textbook collection consists of 180,000 printed and online volumes from over 175 countries. The majority of the 9,000 curricula in the collection have been digitised and are available as fully searchable texts.